Monday, July 26, 2010

Set Up Digital Cable On A Home Theater Projector

Connecting your digital cable service to your projector ensures that there will be no shortage of breathtaking hi-def entertainment. There's no need to pay for installation: it's easy to connect your digital cable to your home theater projector.


Instructions


1. Position your projector in front of your home theater's viewing area and within reach of a power outlet. Match the red blue and green ends of the component cable to the red, blue and green ports on the back of your projector or connect the DVI cable to the port labeled DVI.


2. Position your cable box within reach of the projectors video cable, a cable outlet and a power outlet. Match the red, blue and green ends of the component cable to the ports on the back of the cable box, or connect the DVI cable to its port on the back of the box.


3. Connect your receiver system to the cable box with either and optical cable or RCA audio cable. Match the red and white cable heads of the RCA cable to the red and white audio ports on the back of the cable box labeled "Audio Out." Connect the other end of the cable to the "Audio In" port on the receiver. To use the optical cable, remove the stoppers on the ports for both the receiver and the cable box---run the cable from one port to the other.


4. Plug the individual speakers into the ports on the back of your receiver, matching the speaker to its port (for example, the front right speak goes into the port labeled "FR"). Position the receiver's speakers around the viewing area.


5. Connect one end of the coax cable to the "Cable In" port on the back of the cable box, and then connect the other end to the wall coax port. Plug the power cable into an outlet and power the box on.


6. Power on the projector. The projector will automatically detect which type of video cable is being used.







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